skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agreed. Honestly, I despise the superficially objective and neutral concern troll approach to this. I can't see this article as anything but a dishonest way to say: "what if someone used private communications to do something bad? let's get rid of private communications". Except it doesn't own up to the fact that that's ultimate what it's proposing. It stops at fearmongering.

Also, I commented this above, but there's a different way to solve the problems of polarization and radicalism. It involves solving people's material problems, and the US has been slowly getting worse at this and decaying for a while now. Instead, the political establishment is doubling down on surveillance, the silencing of dissent off of any platform with reach, and ultimately physical repression, through the increased funding and militarization of police.

Right now this is claimed to be targeted at the far right.. but it doesn't take a genius to compare the police reaction to BLM vs the capitol riot to see where it is going.
Hard problem. If someone else out there is in the same boat. How would that person find you?

If you can answer that, then you've found your answer and on your way of solving one of the biggest issue straight men are facing.

I'm in the same boat as you thus scoping out HN right now ;-), but also do Reddit and Indiehackers.com. I'm finding it's harder to find someone to befriend than it was finding my soulmate! Seriously.

Other places due to my interests are arduino/ESP8266/IoT forums. As for late, I'm been active on Hubitat forums since I'm trying to hobble together a worthy home automation and security. Lot of great people but hard to "connect" as a friend in forums. They are there to find solutions, not friends or at least I think they are?

It's almost as if one needs to "invent" match.com for for friends ;-) FriendFinder site start with that mantra where the founder started out looking for golf buddies only to find out most men that are looking are looking for one thing....

Incidentally, great podcast on this subject:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594719471/guys-we-have-a-prob...

I've been looking long and hard to try to find a solution to this problem. Women simply do NOT have this problem. Only men and it's becoming an epidemic of sorts. My father died "lonely", while my mother thrived with friends and same as for my in-law's. Men just do not want to talk, approach or converse with other men unless forced to. Stigma men seem to unwilling to let go.

Sorry, rambling since I got tired of coding and was looking for a break by reading HN ;-)
Not true. The antenna itself has a very low scan to keep costs down.
I used to hang out in the back of one of those repair shops, so I remember what they were repairing. There were through-hole components and chips with pin mounts, most armatures were pot metal.

If you looked inside a TV now, you'd see mostly surface mount components, and molded plastic armatures.

There's just not as much to repair anymore, things either work or they don't. I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm saying there was no conspiracy to drive repair shops out of business, just a general switch to more reliable (yes, more reliable) electronics, which happen to also be less repairable.

White goods are a different story, things like washing machines have been built in an increasingly cynical fashion.
Has it accelerated in the last ten years? sure.

Point still stands it was pretty common the past fifty years at least, just occurred in backrooms and editorial boards.

Plenty of examples of this.

NYT might as well have had the snowden leak information as far back as 2004 I believe it was, but they withheld it.
> being coy

Not really. It's weaponized privacy. Freedom of speech for thee (when it's expedient to my political goals) but not for me.
I made an appointment with a local dermatologist about some sunburn that never seems to heal up. He's a young German guy living here in New Zealand. After a quick examination: "So! You have solar keratosis! How long have you been wearing the hat?" Me: "Oh 5 years or so". Him: "And how long have you lived here?" Me: "All my life, 60 years". Him: "Just so! It seems all Kiwis have solar keratosis ja?".

In other words, there are downsides to being outside in that 1000 times (maybe 10000 times here) brightness. The really annoying thing is that my eyes were buggered from a young age too, despite all that brightness.
what's the advantage of tarsnap over say, doing an encrypted backup with borg to my gdrive folder? I've never heard of Google random deleting encrypted blobs from people's storage and it's way cheaper
I am keeping my bets conservative. These were all long term (1+ years) except a few option trades. Consider this a hedge against the very phenomenon discussed in this article.
Disparity is the norm. It would be weird if the pay was the same.

This is more true the more specialized you get. What is the pay for hockey coaches in Hawaii versus Toronto?
You mean we should ban encryption on the physical hardware of the Internet? Once there is a mechanism to verify the identity of the other party, those two parties don’t need the platform to do end to end encryption. Each party generates a public/private key pair, does some double encryption magic, and it’s all over. The platform doing this is a convenience. The platform storing this is just giving the government a convenient place to decrypt it once they have coerced the keys from one or more of the parties. I wonder how that would fly with the citizens of other countries that use Signal? Would they be comfortable with the US government reading their messages?

Why is the left now so into policies that they decry when done in other countries: social scoring, travel bans, censorship? What is going on? Is the US going through it’s version of China’s Cultural Revolution?
On Android there are 3rd party stores. F-Droid being a popular one with FOSS apps.

Major difference is that only the Play Store can install apps in the background. That is, unless you root your phone.
libtool isn't primarily about portability across compilers; libtool is about portability across linkers and library formats, from the days when there were many systems with deficient library support. It's not unreasonable to assume a modern linker, and modern library support.
If you liked Halt and Catch Fire and the music therein, make sure to check out the soundtrack, it's available on bandcamp[0].

I listen to it when I want ~medium to high focus when working, and sometimes to get me "in the mood" so to speak.

[0]: https://paulhaslinger.bandcamp.com/album/halt-and-catch-fire...
> There was an insurrection on the US capitol due to extremists and online communication tools were a big part of this

Would you be taking this principled stance if this was an insurrection on the Iranian parliament?
This is the most offensive part to me, I can't even sign up or use DO without having my privacy invaded and sold (they load multiple fingerprinters from different third party vendors that also then share this data) yet they still don't have a handle on abuse.

I get so much rubbish from DO space, nonstop port scanning at absurd volumes (sometimes totaling 6 digit+ pps), from customers that haven't been removed in years. massscan/zmap from people with a fake opt out page (that I shouldn't need to be opting out of), etc.
It's actually very easily possible. Apart from Samsung, the largest phone manufacturers are all Chinese, and currently under sanction by the US government, with more soon on the way. Out of the Chinese bunch, the majority are Huawei. Huawei has been forced to move into a non-Playstore Android OS.

I use a burner Huawei for non-essential Android stuff. Every time I click the "Rate App" button on apps, it redirects me to Huawei store instead of Play Store. Every time I click the "Download" or "Install" button on the browser, it sends me to Huawei store. I think we can expect to see more changes in the coming two years as Android keeps updating. Huawei phones up until 2018 are allowed to use the Google SDKs but none are allowed from 2019.

The only one left behind is Samsung, which has the wherewithal to create its own (Apple clone) app store. If they go ahead with that, Google Play will be a fucking joke at that point.
It even dominates in executable size! ;-)
Let's look at the cases.

Only Sidney Powell cases claimed issues with dominion. The Arizona case was tossed because the evidence was not reliable. Most of the 50+ lawsuits claimed procedural issues and not fraud. Claiming mail-in ballots violated the equal protection clause was brought up heavily even though they've been used for over a hundred years and the Giuliani voted by mail in 2020 election.

The supreme court case brought by other state AGs claimed PA violated their own state constitution. I still don't understand how an AG from another state can sue another state for issues pertaining their own constitution in federal court. Federal court doesn't have jurisdiction to rule if an act violates a states constitution.
I've used autotools on a ton of my projects, and I like it a lot. I can't speak to any of the problems you had.

The one thing I'll say about Autotools is that the learning curve is pretty steep, and it took a fair amount of experimentation to get it right on my first Autoolized project. Maybe you never made it all the way over the hump?
SpaceX absolutely does not follow fcc guidelines. There have been numerous occasions, including changing all their satellites to 550km altitude without getting proper approval where they do it and ask for forgiveness later.
We will need to calculate ballistics tables for our trebuchets in order to lay siege to neighboring towns.
Why go with anything other than blacklist since people know what it means. It's the peak irony that we're discussing Google banning profanities here and arguing about your puritanical society.

Unfortunately it seems the less religious Americans think it's only the dumb hypocrite Christians acting like that.

We, Silicon Valley liberals, surely don't have anything to do with that culture!
The Black Lives Matter protests only get to be called insurrections if their goal was to supplant those authorities or forcefully override their will. Marching to put pressure on authorities to enact reforms is basically the opposite of an insurrection. Without the authorities the protests are pointless.

And look I can only speak for my city since I was there but calling the protests violent is technically true but misleading in the way “there was a fight” is misleading in zero tolerance school policies. Being at the front of the protest was terrifying because the police were itching for any excuse to escalate and purposely obstructing people, grabbing and pushing the crowd daring someone to push back. Tensions are already high and the police acting like schoolyard bullies doesn’t help, and finally some guy finally breaks with a “get your hands off me” they get pulled down to the ground and start getting beaten, people step in to defend the guy and pull the cops off him, more cops rush in and boom — “violence.”

The shit at the Capitol was absolutely moronic and they had basically zero chance of achieving their goal but the intent was there and that’s really what matters.
HLR Look Up
Manual sorting out of endless databases is a tricky task, especially when they contain millions of numbers. Therefore, it is worth using the HLR search, as well as getting MNP information to make sure the database contains only up-to-date contacts. Cleaning the database before the start of messaging is a useful procedure that allows you to avoid errors and useless budget spending for sending SMS.
As an Australian living in the US, I understand the dynamics. Canadians and Australians have special access to the US labour market, most of the high-prestige work is happening here...

and the pay is much, much better.
Perhaps it would help if I elaborated. I feel that you're filling in the blanks with some of your own projections.

The locals here openly accept money for voting. Politicians and bureaucrats are widely regarded as liars and cheats. The government's authority is checked by continuous protests. Government officials don't want to rock the boat or create further instability.

Similarly, the people have very little interest in politics. There's not constant bickering or hyperbolic demonization. Political fights don't permeate every sphere of life.

Everyone mostly stays in their own lane.

Yes, corruption is a problem here. Corruption is also a problem in the US. However the barrier to entry is higher. K street lobbyists don't come cheaply.

Yes, the government is ineffective. The question is, do the people want it to be effective? Even the private sphere is similarly ineffective. That's just a cultural norm, separate from the relationship to government.
If you like the Commodore 64 try the Mega 65: https://mega65.org/
Shannon limit says nothing about frequency. It's about bandwidth. You can have just as much sodium available at lower frequencies than higher, and in fact, it's usually preferable.
I would not sign your initiative since I believe it is dangerous and would make the web worse. Here's why:

You propose to make web protocols/standards and national laws tightly coupled for the long run, to solve a usability problem in the short run. That's the wrong hammer for this delicate ceramic vase. Can you imagine what it would take to evolve web standards if they have to do so in tandem with the laws of dozens of different countries? If the law says cookie acceptance can be a browser setting without giving details, that's not too little detail. Even mentioning cookies might be too much detail for a law.

I am annoyed too, but I direct my annoyance at the entity that made the wrong usability and privacy decision, which is the organisation behind the website in question. Website owners (should) have every incentive not to annoy their users. Designing websites without cookie consent pop-ups is possible, legal, and a competitive advantage. As a user, removing the pop-ups automatically is also fairly simple. Let it play out. It's gotten worse before it gets better, but I believe GDPR is ultimately a force for good.
This was pretty common in AWS back in the late 00s. Performance usually sucked too much otherwise.
Also, is the pay lower for all professions in Canada when compared to US, or just SWE?
The fact that's encrypted doesn't matter. There are a number of potential issues with collecting it in the first place. You can see some of the security concerns which were brought up on their forums here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...
> The same way USPS doesn’t go around opening letters and getting rid of whatever they don’t like.

Bad example because the USPS can and does use x-rays, Geiger counters, and sniffing dogs to inspect packages without actually opening them. No analogous tooling exists for encrypted messages.
Not sure if they'll get a Starlink terminal down there this season, especially given COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand.

Most data and internet from pole is via ~4 hours of DSCS a day, ~4 hours of skynet (slowww...) or when TDRSS decides to gives South Pole time (but in small chunks of time).

I usually try to ssh in my experiment at Pole the start of DSCS time, which unfortunately can be in the middle of the night for me.
I guess I’m not terribly surprised. It fits a narrative, not of being overly protective, but of run-of-the-mill incompetence.

Someone once used a DigitalOcean droplet to run an aggressive layer 7 denial of service attack against a service I host. I notified DO via their web form, didn’t get a reply for three days, then got told to email to their abuse@ email address instead.

Dutifully, I mailed abuse@ and included the relevant server logs, gzipped, as an attachment. I got a reply that they won’t open any attachments, please copy and paste the logs directly into the email.

As an outsider, it seems to me as if they have few people with the appropriate technical background staffing their abuse department, so legitimate reports are left uninvestigated due to dumb technicalities like not being willing/able to open attachments, and bogus reports are accepted without thought or understanding as to the appropriate course of action.
Am I missing something? Your site says $2149, not $1999. And it has a $29/mo membership.
The strange thing is that the “instruction” Halt and Catch Fire originated in a joke System/360 “green card” (reference summary) from the 1960s, along with Rewind and Break Tape, Execute (or Punch) Operator, and many others I've long since forgotten. Reference is sometimes made to an undocumented Motorola 6800 instruction, but the term is from the Big Iron era, and has nothing to do with personal computing. It's really from the "Blinkenlichts" era, when people commonly put up cartoons in the machine room showing a floating-point adder as a snake in a birdbath.

By the way, Big Iron's abilities in the physical world were real. I occasionally operated a System/360 with 4 2311 disk drives, 7.5MB monsters with the form factor of washing machines. When running the IBM sort program, these clunkers were apt to move around the machine room.
See my flagged comment below beginning with "The general consensus is that this was a dynamic hack".

That explains why hand-recounting of ballots wouldn't make a difference. Also, I don't believe signature verification was widely used, or at least wasn't used in the critical swing states where it really mattered. It should be used everywhere considering the technology is mature enough and easily available.
You can choose not to set a profile photo but you can't choose not to set the list of contacts you've been in touch with. Opting out of setting a pin won't prevent the data from being saved to their servers. The fact that's encrypted doesn't matter. There are a number of potential issues with collecting it in the first place. You can see some of the security concerns which were brought up on their forums here:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...
Just Wikipedia would be huge.
It works (obviously anecdotal so YMMV). I follow a variant as on endmyopia.org and so far shaved off a couple of diopters from my last good prescription. However, it is a slow and multi year process but you do see a diopter reduction each year consistently. What's more worrying though is if the hypothesis as presented on any of these websites is true, then modern myopia epidemic is exacerbated by using myopia glasses themselves which is quite worrying.
> I guess there are exceptions and warrants,

That’s the entire point though, right? The politicians and law enforcement agencies want a way to provide those same exceptions for encrypted communications.
Whoa. I sit corrected!
Same as the point of high level languages generally, you can express more complex application logic with much less programming effort plus you can focus on your app instead of worrying about manual memory management crashes and security vulnerabilities.

Register/memory write primitives can be easily exposed to the HLL.

(Yes there are other high level languages besides JS you might use too, eg MicroPython...)
Sure, NSF is willing to pay for bandwidth that is used to transmit science data. Less so for people wanting to watch cat videos at Pole :).
Or you know, cellphones.
It's always a multi dimensional spectrum of cost, performance, peripherals, development support, availability, family reach, etc. I personally really like STM8 microcontrollers for their simplicity and very low cost (can be less than 30 cents). There's actually another project that brings Forth to STM8: https://github.com/TG9541/stm8ef It has very good documentation and I recommend anyone to take a look
> Where was this risk aversion during the storming of the Capitol on January 6th?

Are you asserting that some of the same people who filed affidavits also entered the capitol own jan 6th? Is there any evidence for this?

> I think what you say is true of most people, but it seems very clear that we have a group which doesn't behave like most people.

I think we as a society are moving past the whole "judge some people by the actions of some different people" thing.
They aren't. Not enough to stay in business. See the Bloomberg article from a while back. It's VC and FCC money at the moment.
So don't make the chats public and linkable. Make group chats invite-only.
I don’t have enough karma to downvote, dude. It’s also not a bad take. Institutional investors do indeed make a killing and you can do fine using i.e. the wheel strategy. But if you’re YOLOing on WSB and you aren’t an institutional investor it is almost certainly luck to turn thousands into millions.
Continuing on from my other reply on country scale, we can actually drill down to Illinois and take a look:

https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-IE&gl=IE&ceid=IE%3...

You can see that restrictions did have clear effects in first and second wave. By June, restrictions had beaten back the virus almost far enough.

You can also see the effect of strong restrictions at the end of November (up to "Tier 3" by Nov 20) : the number of infections is trending back down.

Looks like Illinois is doing a fair job! Thank goodness those extra beds weren't needed.
Visual Survery of Data Augmentation
I believe Iridium Certus is being tried out at Pole right now, but was not an option (for me) when I was there ~1 year ago.
what does green mean?

EDIT: ah, new account.
> You can lose way more than the principal no?

Not if you're buying options (calls or puts to open). Maybe you're thinking about short selling, or selling naked options.
Unforgivable Phrases Developers Should Stop Saying at Interviews
Been thinking seriously about this.

Do you just inform your contacts with an auto responder?

How long do you intend to keep the gmail account?
So you’re just going to whine about tone? Not even try to argue for or against what I have put forth?
They have funding rounds and their customers (NASA, government, private industry) pays.

Because SpaceX is a private company, none of us really know (publicly) its financial state. It could be profitable at this point.
> I am almost willing to bet $$$ that they would be fine if they had JS disabled.

I am fully willing to bet $$$$ that they would be fine if they had air gapped their computer.

Unfortunately, disabling JS is only marginally more practical than completely foregoing access to the web; and it is only going to get worse as more sites and services rely on JS.
> what can be done to restore trust?

given the foregoing, are you sure you want people to trust the government?
That's because (secure) messaging using phone numbers as identifiers is literally the core feature of the product. Signal was marketed from day one as a drop in SMS replacement. Initially it even used SMS as the transport for encrypted messages. It was even originally called "TextSecure". This is why I have always found the attacks on it using phone numbers to be amusing.
Yes, you need autogen.sh.
The World Wide Web History Project
Maybe something like remote-controlled rescue?